The Alt-Right Useful Idiot: The Absurd Arena Live Discussion Board
Plus, predicting the craziest responses in this week's GOP debate
Click here to join the live discussion board at 12pm est with Katie and Wilson
Hey Useful Idiots,
If you’re like me, it gets a bit awkward when people find out you’re alt-right. They ask you about the podcasts you produce or listen to you, and you tell them: they’re anti-war, they host guests ignored by the mainstream, they critique corporate media like CNN.
And just when you thought that was a safe thing to say, BOOM. You’re outed as the right-wing MAGA fascist that you are. You try to backtrack, tell them no no no, they make fun of everyone, it’s not right wing it’s independent. You even namedrop a shared villain in a final feeble attempt at salvation: “We make fun of Fox News too!”
But it’s too late. Another friend is gone.
This week I’m visiting my girlfriend’s family. They had a guest over who asked me about Useful Idiots, and in my explanation I accidentally committed the old alt-right slip: I told him we make fun of the New York Times and mentioned this week’s sick headline. The conversation died very quickly after that. But everyone knew what had happened. The guest totally thought I was a you-know-what.
And the moment he left, a new nickname for me, the nervous guy hoping his girlfriend’s family will like him, had already stuck: ARM. Alt-Right Matt.
They of course were joking, but the fear is real. In a world that decided everyone has to fall into one of two camps, Shitlib or MAGA, saying you’re critical of mainstream media lands you firmly in one of those camps. And unless you add a whole lot of nuance and backtracking, you’re written off as an alt-right crazy.
So for this week’s Absurd Arena, let’s hear from you. Are you brave, do you share how you feel, proudly and unequivocally? Or are you like me, and avoid telling anyone how you actually feel unless you’re sure they’re not a vote-shaming member of one of those two camps?
Join Katie and Wilson at 12pm est to share how you deal with giving opinions in a world that allows only two classes of thought. But don’t get your hopes up; no matter what you say here, you’re not gonna get any nickname as tough as ARM.
I don't either. But it's a fun format to get some ideas out there, and figure the whole thing is a work in progress. I don't have a Smart Phone so can't get the "Chat App," just doing the "web reader" instead. "Useful Idiots" has proven to be a solid site, and is not compromised like "Breaking Points," which caters to people who like to think that they're more clever than the ones paying their bills. Sagaar's still struggling to wrestle free from Krystal's maniacal grip, but fortunately has so far resisted Krystal's instruction to get his hair dyed blond, like he's some kind of MAGA-holdout, or whatever. Actually those two, primarily Krystal, lost me during "Covid" due to their idiotic MSM talking point "radars" on the "Pandemic." This is a verbal experiment to see if, in fact, the conversation works...
How I actually feel is 1% of the U.S. population owns 30% if the nation's wealth; the bottom 50% own 3%.
The Clinton Wall Street-bombing faction of the U.S. oligarchy bury this fact under a mountain of psychobabble. The Bannon fracking-SWAT team faction bury it under scapegoating immigrants, homeless people, addicts, and gender-nonconforming people.
Fred Hampton died in his bed in a hail of U.S. security-state gunfire because he figured out that the oligarchy sucks the life out of everyone, turns it into money, and deposits it in the hands of a miniscule minority of money-obsessed madmen by pitting us all against each other over nonsense.
Tell this to your girlfriend's parents.
The NY Times has long since been a useless roll of toilet paper. Joking about it is a waste of time.
Unbury the single most important fact about the material confitions of every American's life and join forces to correct it.